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[Adrian05]

Budget (including currency): 1200€

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Plex like workloads, hosting a Minecraft server, archival storage

 

Hey guys, a buddy of mine and i are planning to build our first server. As mentioned above we want to use it as a minecraft server, video streaming (plex or similiar) and just plain archival storage. I have a spare GTX1060 6GB as an encoding GPU or if it's necessary a A750. My thinking for a suitable CPU was something like an Epyc 7402P or a 7302P, so basically between 16 and 24 cores, an older Xeon is also an option.

For Ram i would want to go with something along the lines of 96-128GB.

 

That's the basic parameters i've set so far. I'm not locked into any of this. So if somebody here has experience with building the machine that i described, help is definitely appreciated, especially with the CPU and MOBO choice as i'm not that deep into those.

 

[SorryBella]

5 hours ago, Adrian05 said:

I have a spare GTX1060 6GB

More than enough.

5 hours ago, Adrian05 said:

was something like an Epyc 7402P or a 7302P

Minecraft server API is still very single core heavy and you dont need a lot of horsepower for plex transcoding or archival storage. youre less likely to see benefits of massive amount of cores that Epyc offers. Youll be better off served with off the shelves consumer hardware on that front. Do you need this to be rack mounted or just in a standard sized computer case?

[Adrian05]

13 hours ago, SorryClaire said:

Do you need this to be rack mounted or just in a standard sized computer case?

I don't have a rack, so basic case mounted would be ideal.

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, Adrian05 said:

I don't have a rack, so basic case mounted would be ideal.

Cool. Ill assume ECC isnt necessary as none of these applications are particularly mission critical.

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  (€338.20 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler  (€39.97 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Motherboard: ASRock B650M PG RIPTIDE Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard  (€190.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-5600 CL30 Memory  (€118.76 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: TEAMGROUP MP33 PRO 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€50.60 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€75.30 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€75.30 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€75.30 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€75.30 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Video Card: NVIDIA Founders Edition GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Video Card  (Purchased For €0.00) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 2300 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€54.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master MWE GOLD 750 V2 FULL MODULAR 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€102.07 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €1196.59
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-06-07 16:01 CEST+0200

 

32GB should be more than enough, bind 8GB to the MC server and the rest for Plex and Archive.

[Adrian05]

That looks good! Thank you really much, that helped a lot!